From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:46:34 +0200 Message-ID: <83bn6mmzr9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <83bn6quugw.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2lbo4ba.fsf@gnu.org> <56E076EC.8040606@cs.ucla.edu> <83egbjo2c6.fsf@gnu.org> <56E0B037.6080700@cs.ucla.edu> <83pov2n8ji.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457603205 6219 80.91.229.3 (10 Mar 2016 09:46:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 10 10:46:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adxAz-0002vH-CP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:46:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47253 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adxAy-0001bu-QW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:46:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adxAs-0001b9-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adxAm-00050a-U2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:46:30 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38711) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adxAj-0004z1-4M; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1065 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adxAi-0007kG-8Y; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 04:46:20 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Yuri Khan on Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:14:13 +0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201362 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:14:13 +0600 > Cc: Paul Eggert , John Wiegley , > Emacs developers > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Btw, the best solution would be to have these tricks added to standard > > Git installation, or maybe to GNU Diff (which I think Git uses?). Why > > should users need to reinvent the same wheel all the time? > > Git in fact predefines header regexps for many languages predefined > (see list below). It just does not apply them out-of-the-box; the user > has to add the “*.tex diff=tex” and similar mappings to one of their > gitattributes file. Then I guess my suggestion above is that these _are_ applied out of the box. > The following built in patterns are available: > > · ada suitable for source code in the Ada language. > · bibtex suitable for files with BibTeX coded references. > · cpp suitable for source code in the C and C++ languages. > · csharp suitable for source code in the C# language. > · fortran suitable for source code in the Fortran language. > · fountain suitable for Fountain documents. > · html suitable for HTML/XHTML documents. > · java suitable for source code in the Java language. > · matlab suitable for source code in the MATLAB language. > · objc suitable for source code in the Objective-C language. > · pascal suitable for source code in the Pascal/Delphi language. > · perl suitable for source code in the Perl language. > · php suitable for source code in the PHP language. > · python suitable for source code in the Python language. > · ruby suitable for source code in the Ruby language. > · tex suitable for source code for LaTeX documents. We need some more, which are not in this list. Thanks.